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Tools of Fighter Pilots shares seasoned pilots' insights, bridging cockpit and boardroom. Through podcasts and articles, it offers transferable skills to boost resilience, decision-making, and performance in any field. Leadership Performance
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Q&A On Leadership, Human Performance, and the Decision You Would Make Again (opens the original)
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INTROIn a fighter cockpit you are never handed a single source of truth.A modern aircraft is built with redundancy — more than one instrument reporting the same thing by different means, so that one quiet failure cannot own your decision. Older aircraft had far less of it, which is why the pilot’s scan across the panel carried so much more weight. Technology did not remove the discipline. It gave the discipline something to work with.Redundancy is what lets you meet a problem with more room to a
Check Six #7 — The Call You Did Not Make (opens the original)
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THE THREATSomeone on your team can see a problem you cannot.But they don’t speak! Not because they are disloyal or lazy, but because they feel that the cost of being wrong in front of you is higher than the cost of staying quiet and being right in private.You might not even be the responsible one to have created that. You did not have to because in vertical organisations Seniority does it on its own.I ask you to do a test.When was the last time someone a wingman told you that you were wrong, in
Q&A On Leadership, Human Performance, and the Standard You Do Not Get to Move (opens the original)
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INTROThere is a call at the beginning of Fighter Pilots’ combat exercises that closes every conversation and opens the only one that counts.“Fight’s on.”Before it, everything is still fixable. You can rebrief, reset the geometry, ask the question you have been avoiding. After it, nobody is interested in your intentions.What you do in the next ninety seconds is what happened, and the debrief will hold it against a standard that was published before you walked to the aircraft. A standard which sho
Check Six #6 - What Does Success Look Like (opens the original)
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THE THREATHave you ever asked five people on your team what the mission is this quarter?If not, you must do this separately, without leading them.Write down the five answers.Trust me when I say they you will get five answers, not necessarily contradictory, that would require an easy fix.All the five answers will be “close enough”. Same direction, but different destination responding internally to “what is it for me?”. Each person will have quietly filled the gap with the version that makes
Check Six #5 - Task Saturation (opens the original)
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THE THREATThere is a moment in a busy cockpit, where you are working harder than ever, and all of a sudden, without realising you know less than an hour ago.You are reading every gauge and every display. You are answering every call. Your hands are moving and your attention is fully committed and the picture is quietly draining away, because every unit of attention spent inside the cockpit is one you are not spending outside it.You are having that week.Back to back meetings, inbox continuously i
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